When Friendly Fire Kills Your Approval Ratings
All the talk since Sunday has centered around the hunting accident involving Vice President Dick Cheney. The discussion has moved to the amount of time it took for the news to reach the public. The news first appeared in a Corpus Christi newspaper on the event that happened Saturday.
This talk over the delay in notification has pushed this event at the forefront of public debate longer than it might have lasted. An additional catalyst to this debate was the poor job by Press Secretary Scott McClellan to give details and explain why there was the delay.
Although there might be other aspects of this topic to discuss, such as whether Cheney was negligent in observing safety guidelines, this debate can take one of two possibilities. First, this may be seen as yet another example of how the administration seeks to control the flow of information. In this case, the fortunes of the administration will depend on the prevailing opinions about restrictions of information. Second, this debate may just have been useful in keeping other issues from the front pages. That could be beneficial to the administration was it will distract attention from other damaging developments, if only for several days.
John Kerry tried to use hunting as a photo op for his presidential campaign in 2004 to show his credentials as a common, yet tough, American. With this accident involving Cheney while hunting, Democrats have a chance to establish what Kerry sought to put in the minds of voters.
For this task, Joe Lieberman, Senator from Connecticut, should be the nominee to handle this process. Lieberman will then have a choice on how to complete the mission. He can shoot or use a hunting knife on a puppy. Lieberman can also volunteer to be shot in the face by Howard Dean while Dean does the scream from this post-Iowa caucus rally that made him the butt of quite a few jokes. Lieberman will need to be shot with buckshot or with any other kind of shotgun ammunition more potent than birdshot.
Democrats need Joe-mentum.
This could be the thing that shows the American voters that the Democrats are tough guys and mean business. It also allows the Democrats to capture the headlines from Cheney.
Uncle Dean wants YOU, Joe Lieberman, to help the Democrats.
After all this is over, perhaps the issue can finally be laid to rest and we can focus on other pressing, "breaking news" worthy issues of the day, such as the massive search at JFK International for a dog that took part in the Westminster Dog Show this year.
This talk over the delay in notification has pushed this event at the forefront of public debate longer than it might have lasted. An additional catalyst to this debate was the poor job by Press Secretary Scott McClellan to give details and explain why there was the delay.
Although there might be other aspects of this topic to discuss, such as whether Cheney was negligent in observing safety guidelines, this debate can take one of two possibilities. First, this may be seen as yet another example of how the administration seeks to control the flow of information. In this case, the fortunes of the administration will depend on the prevailing opinions about restrictions of information. Second, this debate may just have been useful in keeping other issues from the front pages. That could be beneficial to the administration was it will distract attention from other damaging developments, if only for several days.
John Kerry tried to use hunting as a photo op for his presidential campaign in 2004 to show his credentials as a common, yet tough, American. With this accident involving Cheney while hunting, Democrats have a chance to establish what Kerry sought to put in the minds of voters.
For this task, Joe Lieberman, Senator from Connecticut, should be the nominee to handle this process. Lieberman will then have a choice on how to complete the mission. He can shoot or use a hunting knife on a puppy. Lieberman can also volunteer to be shot in the face by Howard Dean while Dean does the scream from this post-Iowa caucus rally that made him the butt of quite a few jokes. Lieberman will need to be shot with buckshot or with any other kind of shotgun ammunition more potent than birdshot.
Democrats need Joe-mentum.
This could be the thing that shows the American voters that the Democrats are tough guys and mean business. It also allows the Democrats to capture the headlines from Cheney.
Uncle Dean wants YOU, Joe Lieberman, to help the Democrats.
After all this is over, perhaps the issue can finally be laid to rest and we can focus on other pressing, "breaking news" worthy issues of the day, such as the massive search at JFK International for a dog that took part in the Westminster Dog Show this year.
posted by Will at 10:34 PM
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